Entries by AlanPaul

Deal Me In

My friend Tom came over for dinner tonight and brought his clippers. No translations problem here. anna likes the stubbly feel. Driving Tom home, I stopped for a picture with the guard around the corner. Jacket? I don’t need no stinkin’ jacket!

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Portrait of the artist as a Young Man

During Hebrew School on Sundays, some of the parents take a Chinese painting class. I posted my first effort a couple of weeks ago. Here is number two. I really enjoy the process and am pretty pleased with the results. But I am most proud of Jacob’s work, which is on the left. Becky actually […]

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Life goes on

Well, I was going to paste Becky’s story in up here, which was about pollution from China leaving its borders and the growing international problems that is creating. But I can’t get it because wsj.com is suddenly not loading here. That started this weekend. Put it together yourselves. They also had a great front-page story […]

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Life goes on

Well, I was going to paste Becky’s story in up here, which was about pollution from China leaving its borders and the growing international problems that is creating. But I can’t get it because wsj.com is suddenly not loading here. That started this weekend. Put it together yourselves. They also had a great front-page story […]

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Damn It’s Cold!

Until the end of last week, it was a pretty mild fall here. People talk a lot about how rough the winters are but I was thinking, “Ah, everyone is said that is someone who has never been through a winter before.” I was wearing my heavy fall coat, a nice Quicksilver fleece-lined jobbie I […]

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Pick up the Weekend Journal tomorrow

Becky has a front page story on China’s environmental issues in tomorrow’s Weekend Journal. It was an interesting writing process, expanded from a smaller story pretty late in the game. Let’s just say I was lonely in the King Coil last night and she remains a woman of incredible stamina. I especially liked watching her […]

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The Judge weighs in…

Uncle Benny “Here comes Da Judge” cohen steps up to the plate with this message:As we say in legal circles: Res Ipsa Loquitur (The thing speaks foritself). He definitely gets the prize for best, most creatively staged photos. I think he looks great. Joan, you may want to hire a PI to tail him around […]

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